Type-writer backing-sheet.



UNITED 'n i r i TYPE-WRITER V13acirrne-sanste. f

To all iliom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lli'nnsanuno Oiiasiii, a subject of the Mikado ofJapan, residing at New York, in the county of New York .and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tvpe-lVritei Backiing-Sheets, of which the following is a specilication.

In the operation of typewriting it frequently occurs that the waiting,through carelessness on the part of the operator or from other causes,progresses too near to the lower edge of the sheet, thus imparting tothe finished work anunt-idy ap iearance, while at the saine timeconsiderable trouble and annoyance is entailed in preserving the prolpermargin at the bottom of the sheets ang in feeding the. paper backwardfor inaking corrections in instances where the writing has been carriedtoo near to the lower edge of the page.

T his invention relates to typewriter backing sheets and has for itsobjects torovido a. simple article of t-his character whic may beinexpensively produced, one which in prac-- tice provides tor properlygaging and preserving the lower margin, thus to overcome the above notedobjections, and one whereby the number of lines to be written befoiereaching the, bottom of the. page may be determined at a glance.

A further object of the invent-ion is to provide a, backing sheet whichmay be conveniently arranged for use, and one whereby the observance ofespecial care in arranging the backing relative to the sheet whichreceives the writing is rendered wholly unnecessary. A

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises the. novelfeatures of construction and combination of parts more fullyhereinafter'described.

ln the accompanying drawings: Figure l is a face view of a. backingsheet embodying tlle invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view,A showing thesheet folded over for exposing )ortions of both faces to view. Fig. 3 isa. iace view of the sheet showingr the same. folded longitudinally forexposing a portion of both faces. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2,showing a modified lembodiment of the invent-ion.

Referring to.the drawings, 1 designates the backing sheet com osed ofpaper, linen or other. suitable pliab e. material and made `ofsuliicient thickness to forni a soft backing for the slieet toY bewwritten upon and o f ,a`-

width to project at one edge slightly beyond the right hand edge of thesheet whirl ceives the writing, presently appear.

The backing sheet 1, in accordance. with'- the invention, has printed orotherwise inscribed thereon and respectivelyv adjacent its side edges apairofcoluinns or rows 2 of line-` indicating marks in the nature ofnumerals, the final numeralv of each row being spacedY from the adjacentend edges of the sheet, thus to provide on the latter end margins 3.corresponding in nidth to the minimum width of the margin to be made atthe bottoni of the typewritten page. The rows of relatively reverseorder, iermitting reversibility of the sheet, are eac i made up ofmunbers of progressively decreasing values from the top to the bottoniof the row.

As seen in Fi 2, the backing sheet 1 has the longitudina rows ofline-indicating numerals inscribed on both of its faces, the rows ofnumerals on one face being identical in arrangement wit-h those on theother whereby either face. ot' the sheet may be brought into play andeither end arranged uppermost, thus obviating the necessity for o)serving especial care in order to properly position the sheet for use.

In Fie'. 3 the, backing sheetis shown as fora purpose whichfwill-x6Hrnrsauno, oniisni, or New Yoan, Y..

numerals which are arranged to be read in provided with two rows ofnumerals arranged respectively adjacent to and in line with the sideedges of the sheet but separately on opposite faces of the latter andrespectively at the right hand side of each face, of the sheet, while inFig. 4 the sheet is provided in line with the ends of the rows ofnumerals with transversely extending slits or incisions 4 through eitherof which the. lower end of the paper to be written upon may be inserted,whereby that portion of the paper which is to forni the lower marginwill be covered b v the end marginal portion 3 of the barking sheet, itbeing evident that under this arrangement the lower portion of thewritten page will be effectually shielded to preclude possibilitv of thewriting being carelessly carried below the lowermost eharacter in therow of indicat- -infr numerals.

ln practice, and in arranging the backing sheet, which, as beforestated, is of a width -somewhat greater than that of the sheet to iright'hand side of the 'face sheet and of course `with the numerals inthe row to read fromv top tobottom in progressively decreasing order.The face and backing sheets having 5 been thus arranged and asthe'writing progresses, the operator can determine at a glance, theextent of the unwritten portion of the sheet and the -umber of linesremainin to be written in order to` complete the fu page. For instance,should the numeral 5 stand opposite the line being written or justcompleted, the o erator willbe advised of the fact that four ines remainto be written .without encroaching upon the margin to be v left' at thebottom of the page. It 1s apparent that in the use of the backing sheetnot only will crowding of the writing at thebottom of the page beobviated, but also-that lower end margins of a uniform width will bepreserved on all of the written pages, thus to impart thereto a neat,attractive and uniform ap earance. y Furthermore, it will be observethat the rows of gage numerals are 'essentially terminated `at pointsspaced from the ends ofthe baekin sheets in order to insure preservationof the f proper margins on the written pages and-that the row ofnumerals which is brou ht `into action must necessarily read from tatopito the bottom of the page in decreasing numerical progression inorder that the numeral standing opposite the last completed lineofwriting may show the number of lines remaining\toi.be written. Havingthus described my inthe ion, what l claim is: Qa 1. As a new article ofmanufacture, a typewriter gave comprising a uniformly ilexible backingheet having at its lower` end a transverse slitaifran'ged a sufficientdistance from the adjacent edge thereof to form a 40 cover portion tooverlie theend of a sheet of typewriter paper inserted in said slit, theside. margins of said backing sheet being provided with line-indicationsnumbered in reverse or-. der, said indications extending in rows from4;. a p oint immediately ad'acent the ends of said slit to a )oint iinmciately adjacent-the other endof t 1e backing sheet.

2. As a new article Vof manufacture, a typewriter backin sheet having arow of nuv merals disposed a( jacent to and in line with g the righthand side ed'e of the sheet, said nuy merals rogressivel decreasing fromthe uper to e lower en( of the row and terminating at 'a oint spacedfrom the lower end edge 55 of ,the s reet, said sheet having atransverse slit extended throu hout substantially the entire width ofthe stlieet and in line with the lowermost numeral in the row. l

`3. A ty ev'vriter backing sheet adapted to 60 underlie tie impressionreceiving paper on a typewriter and comprising a sheet having a row ofnumerals arranged ad'acentto one of its side ed es, said numeralsprogressively decreasing om the upper numeral and being respectivelyspaced a distance equal to the line spacing feed of the typewriterlaten, the lowermost numeral being spaced) fromA the lower edge of thesheet a distance in excess of that between the adjacent numerals.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.i

l HYDESABURO OHASHI. Witnesses: v v

JOHN L. FLETCHER, F. S. ELMORE.

